Word: blew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half was a team effort. Coach Carol Kleinfelder shuffled the bench, perhaps to keep her charges from contracting pneumonia from the freezing drafts that blew through the fieldhouse...
...lost his nerve, hit the brakes, couldn't make the turn, went headfirst into a stationwagon full of people coming up the river from Charleston. Two people got killed, Elvin one of them. I was the first to get to the car, and as soon as I did it blew...
...point about violence is not so much that it breeds violence-though that is probably true-but that it totally desensitizes viciousness, brutality, murder, death so that we no longer actively feel the pains of the victim or suffer for the mourners or feel their grief. When the Hindenburg blew up, the reporter broke down on the radio. I can't imagine anything like that happening today. I imagine a detached, calm description of the ship going up in flames: "I do believe there will be no survivors." We have become desensitized to things that are usually part...
This week Morgan will buy his own journal of ideas, The Nation, America's oldest continuously published weekly (founded in 1865). The magazine has always been slightly to the left of American journalism, and often out in front. The Nation blew the whistle five months before the event on CIA preparations for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion-to little avail-and published the first article on automobile safety by a young lawyer named Ralph Nader. Publisher James J. Storrow Jr., who has owned the magazine since 1965, put it on the block early this year, after the retirement...
...Cusumano (142 lbs.) matched his quickness against his opponents' obvious brawn, but tried in the late going and blew a 5-2 lead on the way to an 8-8 deadlock...